Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — TRUCK LINE THROUGH CITY [ARTICLE]

TRUCK LINE THROUGH CITY

Will Soon Be in Operation Between Indianapolis and Chicago. The International Transportation Co., an organization mentioned some weeks ago in The Democrat been formed to operate an automobile truck line service between Indianapolis and Chicago, now has eight big trucks in dally operation between Lafayette and Indianapolis and expects to have the line running between Lafayette and Chicago in a few weeks, or as soon as the trucks can be had from the factory. This line will pass through Rensselaer, and one of the trucks was here Monday, returning from a trip to Crown Point. The trucks are mammoth affairs, having large enclosed steel bodies almost as large as an ordinary box car, and a weight carrying capacity of 10,000 ' pounds. They are equipped with pneumatic tires, 40x8 in front and 48x12 in the rear. The latter tires cost about $560 each, but they are guaranteed for 20,000 miles. i This truck line will carry express at freight rates, it is said, and is already doing a big business' ou that part of the line now in operation. With the establishment of a’ hard-surfaced highway between Chicago and Indianapolis the public can, to some extent at least, tell the railroads and express companies to go to.